How can you tell what a word means by its in a sentence

Context Clues are things that you use while reading. When you read a word, and you don't know it's meaning. You look at the sentence around it, and by looking at other words, you understand the meaning of that word. In that way, you won't have to keep going in the Dictionary again and again, or on Merriam Webster.

Example:

Sentence:

John was very distressed when he heard the news of the car accident which happened on the highway.

Let's say that you don't know the meaning of distressed. (it means like sad)

Then, if you don't know the meaning of distressed, then you can see other words around, like "car accident" that means something bad. Car Accidents are never something good. Then, car accident on the HIGHWAY, which means that the car was in a high speed, and the damage would result greater. That means that he is sad about a car accident that happened.

You can see that the word car accident obviously will make you sad, so that means that distressed means sad.

So, hence your answer is Context Clues

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